four-in-hand

four-in-hand (plural four-in-hands)

1. A carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver; a coach-and-four.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 62:

     ‘I must see him!’ he exclaimed; but at that moment the Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand came between, and when it had left the space clear, the carriage had swept out of the Park.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

2. (chiefly US) A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie.
   • 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley 2014, p. 293:

     He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.

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